Re: Working with Variables

Yes, it is. Do something like this:

$var=<<BLAH;

if($lbha = 'poo'){
   print "oh";
}

BLAH

eval $var;
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You're probably wondering about that little eval $var part. Well, all eval does is evaluate the code and execute it as a separate script. Otherwise you would just literally print "if($lbha = 'poo'){ do stuff.... }" out of the screen, which isn't what you want.

I hope I understood your question and answered it properly.

Tiptoeing up to a Perl hacker.
Dave AKA damian

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Re: Re: Working with Variables by Anonymous Monk on Apr 24, 2001 at 00:16 UTC
`Lets say that inside a $var=<<VAR; print "Blah"; VAR print<<BLAH; print "Blah"; eval $var; BLAH will that replace eval $var with "Blah"?` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Working with Variables by ChemBoy (Priest) on May 03, 2001 at 00:12 UTC
No, it will replace `$var` with the string `print "Blah";\n`, so when you run it you'll get `print "Blah"; eval print "Blah"; ;` [download] as your output, which is probably not what you want. See Masem's post and stephen's post below for how to do more interesting interpolation. If God had meant us to fly, he would never have give us the railroads. --Michael Flanders	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Working with Variables by damian1301 (Curate) on Apr 24, 2001 at 00:27 UTC
No, what you want is `$var=<<BLAH; print "Blah"; BLAH eval $var;` [download] Because when it executes it it will print Blah out on the screen because you have `print "Blah";` already inside $var; UPDATE:WOULD SOMEONE MIND TELLING ME WHAT IS SO WRONG ABOUT THIS POST THAT I GOT A -- ON IT?? THIS IS SO beeping REDICULOUS. CONSTANTLY BEING ATTACKED. Tiptoeing up to a Perl hacker. Dave AKA damian	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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